Roxanne notes that the Cleveland Plain Dealer is declining to publish a story based on leaked documents. As iocaste points out, however, the paper is clearly mistaken on the law, and it's worth keeping two very different issues distinct.If Judith Miller were being prevented from...
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Julie and Publius agree that far from being a desirable moderate, Gonzales is an unacceptable nominee, and liberals should absolutely not define him as a moderate or compromise candidate. Kos'.
The federal law banning d&x abortions (and, given its vague language, who knows what else) is now 0-for-4 in the federal courts. (Via How Appealing.) While this is a straightforward.
Heh. Indeed! Of course, truth can be as reprehensible as fiction...
The play-by-play man of the world's most evil organization just asked his color man, David Justice, "what approach would you, as a left-handed hitter, take with Arthur Rhodes?" Justice mumbled.
Assuming that Rehnquist does, in fact, resign tomorrow morning, I would repeat that 1)I think it's very likely that Bush will, as is the historical norm, nominate someone from outside.
Ezra provides a useful compilation of abortion public opinion data. Having waded through more of this stuff than anybody voluntarily would for professional reasons, I can confirm that public opinion on abortion has been remarkably stable since 1967, and in a way favorable to pro-choicers,...
A correspondent asked me about Castle Rock, the recent Supreme Court case that concerned a failure to enforce a restraining order that led to the murder of 3 children. My.
Alicublog uncovers a real (albeit unintended) gem: this Mallard Fillmore strip. You see, what appeared in Jon Stewart's parody of a civics textbook was not a satire of a particularly.
Jeanne D'Arc provides a very useful corrective to the James Traub's piece in the Sunday Magazine. Trying to determine when interventions stand a good chance of working really does require that we not sweep the consequences of recent interventions and entanglements under the rug.
Amanda, Lindsay and Jessica all, for myriad reasons, shred this ridiculous NYT story, which somehow made the front page of the Science Section. Read their posts first. On a less.
MMFA catches the Wall Street Journal's editorial page claiming that "[I]t is the [Supreme] Court's extremism that has blocked just about any regulation of abortion even up to the time.